[PATCH] arm: Add Arm Erratum 773769 for Large data RAM latency.

Sander sander at humilis.net
Wed Jan 29 07:26:51 EST 2014


Doug Anderson wrote (ao):
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Doug Anderson wrote:
> >> * If Joe Upstream wants to run an upstream kernel on some type of
> >> exynos5250 product (Samsung ARM Chromebook, HP Chromebook 11, Nexus 10
> >> are the ones I know of) then he will deal with the small number of
> >> crashes or figure out a solution.
> >
> > If Joe Upstream wants to run an upstream kernel, doesn't he have to
> > unscrew his write protect switch first, at which point the RO firmware
> > can be updated as well?
> 
> Actually, no.  You can move your device into dev mode and run any
> kernel you want.  You'll get an annoying "you're in dev mode" screen
> at every bootup, but otherwise it works just fine.
> 
> Going into dev mode requires some special keystrokes at bootup and a
> wipe of your hard disk but no screwdrivers.

And there is http://www.arndaleboard.org/ where you just put an upstream
kernel on sd and boot.

	Sander



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